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weaken the tissues in adnltism. 8. Breeding animals should 

 he carefully shielded — as far as is practicable — against 

 debilitating influences of any kind. 9. The system of feed- 

 ins: and genera] manao-ement of our high-class stocks should 

 be regulated on a more rational and conservative basis than 

 that on which it at present rests." 



Dr. .lohne gives the following very sensible recommenda- 

 tions, which may prove useful to farmers and stock-breeders 

 in stamping out this disease in their herds : — 



"All tuberculous animals or those with tuberculous ten- 

 dencies must be unconditionally excluded from breeding. 

 All animals diseased with tuberculosis must be separated 

 from healthy ones, and immediately slaughtered. Sus- 

 pected ones should be treated in the same manner. Stables 

 in which such animals have been kept must be thoroughly 

 cleansed and disinfected. Everything tending to cause a 

 predisposition to disease must be carefully avoided, and great 

 care given to ventilation, diet, exercise and exposure." 



Recent Action of the State Cattle Commission. 



Boston, May 12, 1890. 

 To Boards of Health of Cities and Towns. 



In accordance with the spirit and intent of the foregoing paper 

 [see Annual Report, 1891], the undersigned issue the followiug 

 regulation : In all cases of suspected tuberculosis among cattle 

 coming to your notice, you will hereafter instruct owners to cause 

 the separation of their suspected animals from the remainder of 

 the herd, and cause their isolation, and allow the unsuspected ani- 

 mals to be managed in all respects as if no disease had been 



present. 



Levi Stockbridge. 



A. W. Cheever, 



O. B. Hadwen, 



Cattle Commissioners of Massachusetts. 



Milk from Tuberculous Coius. 



The following results were reached by Dr. H. C. Ernst, 

 Dr. Austin Peters and others, from experiments conducted 

 recently at Mattapan, Boston, under the auspices of the 

 Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture : — 



" 1st, and emphatically, that the milk from cows affected 

 with tuberculosis in any part of the body may contain the 



